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A cache of Upper Paleolithic flint artifacts from Nedvigovka village in the Lower Don basin

Kolesnik A. (1), Medvedev S.P. (2)

1) Donetsk National University: Universitetskaya st., 24, Donetsk, 283001; 2) Lomonosov Moscow State University, Anuchin Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Mokhovaya st., 11, Moscow, 125009, Russia

Kolesnik Alexander, Dr. habil., e-mail: akolesnik2007@mail.ru; Medvedev Stanislav Pavlovich, e-mail: stas-roi@mail.ru

Abstract

The Upper Paleolithic sites have been researched actively in the Lower Don since the late 1950s. In 1964 S. N. Bratchenko found a cache of flint artifacts near necropolis of ancient city Tanais and delivered it to M. D. Gvozdover. The cache included about 200 perfect flint blades and several artifacts with secondary treatment or use-wear traces. This assemblage lay in the Pleistocene loam at a depth of 1 m. Flint blades were small in size, and most of them were knapped by an antler hammer. Pyramidal or carenoid cores were used for producing blades. Tools are few in numbers. There is a remarkable group of specific inserts among them, which were used as blade parts of composite points. Most likely this cache was an individual backpack set of blanks for inserts. By technical and typological attributes, we can draw a parallel between our cache and the Upper Paleolithic sites in the Lower Don Basin which belong to a so-called Aurignacian type of sites.

Keywords

archeology, The Upper Paleolithic, Aurignacian, cache of flint artifacts, Lower Don

Цит.: Kolesnik A., Medvedev S.P. A cache of Upper Paleolithic flint artifacts from Nedvigovka village in the Lower Don basin // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2016; 3/2016; с. 135-141